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Unit 2 School life
Reading
Activity 1: Brainstorm
Brainstorm words and phrases related to school life for one minute.
Let us invite several students to share your ideas and writes the words and phrases on the blackboard, such as classes, teachers, subjects, activities, etc.
Activity 1: Brainstorm
See some pictures of students in school—having classes, doing activities, etc.
Activity 1: Brainstorm
Think about and briefly share your own school life.
Activity 2: Discuss and answer
Work into pairs and discuss two questions. After that, we will ask some pairs to share their thoughts.
I'm eager to hear your interesting stories about school life.
What is your school life like
What is special about your school
Activity 3: Skim and answer
Skim through two blog posts about school life and find out the main information of each blog post, then answer the questions on the learning sheet.
Kitty wants to learn about school life around the world. She has found some blog posts by teenagers from different schools. Here are two posts from them. Read the two blog posts quickly and answer the questions on the learning sheet.
Who wrote these two posts
When did they write these posts
What is the most important thing they want to tell us about their schools
Activity 3: Skim and answer
Skim through two blog posts about school life and find out the main information of each blog post, then answer the questions on the learning sheet.
Who wrote these two posts
When did they write these posts
What is the most important thing they want to tell us about their schools
Nancy and Tomoya.
on 15/09.
For Nancy, it is her school life. For Tomoya, it is to introduce the special features of his school.
Activity 4: Read and complete
Read the blog posts carefully. Then underline the names of schools and their countries with straight lines and highlight each school's special features with wavy lines.
Activity 4: Read and complete
Complete the table in Part A.
UK
Japan
fewer
subjects
arts
safety
Food
cleaning
Activity 5: True or false
Read the blog posts again and finish the exercise in Part B.
F
T
T
T
F
F
Activity 6: Complete, read and think
Complete the blog post with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box.
aware creative environment plenty of hands - on look forward to offer pay... attention to
My name is Linlin. I am Chinese, and I go to Donghua Junior High School in Shanghai. We study lots of interesting subjects at school, such as foreign languages and History. But I love our Science lessons the most. We get to do all kinds of (1)________ activities.
Every year, my school has a science festival. It is a chance for us to be (2)______ with our learning. My classmates and I want to protect the (3)__________. We are also (4)_______ of the importance of green energy. So, we built a small car for this year's science festival. This car gets its energy from the sun, so it is quite clean. Our science teacher is as excited as us. He (5)______ to help when we had a problem, and now the car works.
But that's not all! There are (6)________ fun things to see at the science festival. I am really (7)________________ it. There will be toy robots and a model of a space rocket. I will (8)______ special (9)__________ everything and tell you all about it in my next blog post.
hands-on
creative
environment
aware
offered
plenty of
looking forward to
pay
attention to
Activity 6: Complete, read and think
Read the blog post and think about the questions on the learning sheet.
What does Linlin mainly write about her school
Why does she write about it
What do Linlin and her classmates do for this year's science festival
What will they see at this year's science festival
What will Linlin probably talk about in her next blog
Linlin mainly writes about her school's science - related aspects, including science lessons, the science festival.
She writes about it to share her interesting school experiences.
Linlin and her classmates built a small solar - powered car for this year's science festival.
They will see toy robots and a model of a space rocket at this year's science festival.
Linlin will probably talk about the details of the science festival, like the toy robots, the space rocket model and her experiences there.
Activity 7: Summarise and think
Summarise the unique features of the three schools using a mind map.
Now, let's review what we've learnt about these three schools. I'd like you to summarise their special features with the help of the mind map on the learning sheet. You can start by listing key words and connecting related ideas.
Activity 7: Summarise and think
Summarise the unique features of the three schools using a mind map.
Small
Many interesting subjects
Arts are important
Offers different safety programmes
Food education
Has a cleaning tradition
Lots of hands - on science activities
Holds a science festival
a solar-powered
car for the science
festival
...
Activity 7: Summarise and think
Reflect on the questions on the learning sheet.
What language does Nancy want to learn
Why does Nancy introduce a special building just for art, music and drama lessons
Why do Japanese schools teach students about earthquake safety
In which areas of China do you think schools should teach students about earthquake safety
Do most schools in China place importance on Science lessons
Chinese.
To show that the arts are as imporctant as other subjects at her school.
Because Japan is one of the countries with the most earthquakes in the world, so schools teach students to survive in face of danger.
In areas such as Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu.
Yes.
Activity 7: Summarise and think
Carefully compare the teaching characteristics of the three schools and put forward more questions based on the given questions.
What language does Nancy want to learn
Why does Nancy introduce a special building just for art, music and drama lessons
Why do Japanese schools teach students about earthquake safety
In which areas of China do you think schools should teach students about earthquake safety
Do most schools in China place importance on Science lessons
Chinese.
To show that the arts are as imporctant as other subjects at her school.
Because Japan is one of the countries with the most earthquakes in the world, so schools teach students to survive in face of danger.
In areas such as Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu.
Yes.
Activity 8: Compare, complete and write
Work in groups of four and compare your own school with the three schools previously introduced.
Activity 9: Survey and report
Form groups of four and do a survey to find out which school you would most like to study at among Woodland Secondary School, Gekko Middle School, Donghua Junior High School, and our own school. Then discuss the reasons for your choices within the group and fill in the table on the learning sheet.
Activity 9: Survey and report
Let us invite group leaders to present your group’s survey results.
You can use the report sample on the learning sheet as a reference.
Hello everyone! This is Group...
After our discussion, ...in our group chose...The main reasons are: First, ... Second, ....
That’s all from us!
Homework
Review key vocabulary and sentence structures. Recite paragraphs describing school features from the blog posts. (Required)
Read an English passage about a school in another country: ①underline key information; ②summarise three main features; ③look up and define three new words. (Optional)

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